viral-short-form-ideas

viral-short-form-ideas is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vyralcontent/content-skills. It costs 160 tokens per session (2,727 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for generating many ideas for short videos on TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts. It uses repeatable prompts and categories instead of relying on sudden inspiration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm videos for a specific topic, create content pillars or a content matrix, and produce batches of ideas.
Why use it?
It removes the blank-page problem and helps avoid repeating the same ideas. It does not predict which idea will succeed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to brainstorm videos for a specific topic, create content pillars or a content matrix, and produce batches of ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vyralcontent/content-skills/viral-short-form-ideas
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vyralcontent/content-skills --skill viral-short-form-ideas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vyralcontent/content-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,727 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 22 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 22 Jun 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00160 $0.02727
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.01363
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00273

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8a8807438741, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

viral-short-form-ideas scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/viral-short-form-ideas/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.

Viral short-form ideas

Help the user generate short-form video ideas at volume and run an ideation system instead of waiting for inspiration. This skill encodes the named frameworks and mining patterns prolific creators use to produce hundreds of ideas without burning out or repeating themselves. It doesn't predict which idea wins. It makes sure there are enough strong candidates that win-rate matters.

For hook writing itself, see viral-hooks. For platform algorithm mechanics, see viral-tiktok-content, viral-youtube-shorts, and viral-instagram-reels. For captions, CTAs, and on-screen text, see viral-captions-and-ctas. For script structure and retention, see the viral-short-form umbrella.

Operating principles (read these first, apply throughout)

  1. Ideation is a system, not a mood. Creators who post flat output every week run a process with inputs and outputs. Inspiration-based creators post in bursts and then go silent. Treat brainstorming as a scheduled production stage.
  2. Constraints generate ideas; blank pages don't. Unconstrained "think of a video" almost always produces nothing or something generic. Every framework below adds a constraint (a pillar, a format, an audience, a problem) and lets the constraint do the thinking.
  3. Topic vs angle. A topic is what you're covering. An angle is how. One topic has hundreds of angles. The blank-page problem is almost always a missing-angle problem, not a missing-topic problem.
  4. Test cheap, then scale the winners. A tweet or single-line post is the cheapest test of an idea. A polished 30-second short is roughly 10x more expensive. Ideas should earn their way up the production cost ladder.
  5. Capture and creation are different modes. Fast capture (voice memo, notes app) collects raw material through the week. Deeper sessions turn captures into scripted ideas. Mixing the two kills both.
  6. A captured idea is not a made video. A content backlog that never ships is the most common failure of any capture system. Every idea needs a status and a deletion rule, or the pipeline clogs.
  7. Pattern-matching, not prediction. Frameworks tend to lift volume and consistency. They don't guarantee any individual video performs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 185 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A 8a8807438741

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viral-short-form-ideas is a skill published in the GitHub repository vyralcontent/content-skills (106 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 2,727 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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